- Nakusia
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Nakusia
Temporal range: Early EoceneConservation status FossilScientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Proboscidea Family: Anthracobunidae Genus: Nakusia
Ginsburg et al., 1999Species - N. shahrigensis Ginsburg et al., 1999
Nakusia is an extinct genus of early proboscidean from the early Eocene Epoch, described in 1999 in the Ghazij formation of Baluchistan, Pakistan.
References
- GINSBURG L.; KHADIM HUSSAIN DURRANI; AKHTAR MOHAMMAD KASSI; WELCOMME J.-L., Discovery of a new Anthracobunidae (Tethytheria, Mammalia) from the Lower Eocene lignite of the Kach-Harnai Area in Baluchistan (Pakistan), Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences. Série 2. Sciences de la terre et des planètes (C. r. Acad. sci., Sér. 2, Sci. terre planet.), 1999, vol. 328, no3, pp. 209-213
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